Although often romanticized, this Indigenous woman's real-life story reflects early patterns of violence, abduction, and exploitation that connect to the modern MMIW crisis.
Who is Pocahontas?
Governments legal ability to take private property with a justified compenstion for property owners.
What is Eminent Domain?
Los Angeles City Housing Authority singed a federal contract in 1949 to build thousands of public housing. What area was selected for this development?
What Chavez Ravine ?
In 2022 Biden signed a bill that recognizes lynching's as a federal hate crime.
What is the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act?
This group was created after the murder of an unarmed 16 year old . They advocated for social reform and structural changes to American society.
Who are the Black Panthers?
Predating the 1964 Civil Rights Act, these protest actions—initiated after Black families were barred from the sand along the Mississippi Gulf Coast—culminated in a deadly 1960 confrontation in Biloxi and are now seen as pivotal to desegregating public recreational spaces.
What are the Wade-ins?
What extrajudicial practice, predominantly targeting African Americans in the post-Reconstruction United States, was used as a tool of racial terror and social control?
East LA communities were destroyed or relocated for the expansion of ?
What is Freeway/Highway Expansion?
Act prohibits discrimination based on "race, color, relgion, or national origin" in the sale, rental, & mortgaging of housing.
What is the Fair Housing Act 1968 (Civil Rights Act 1968)?
A bill inresponse to the increased violence against Asian Americans, signed in 2021. Making it more accessible to report hate crimes at local & state levels.
What is the COVID 19- Hate Crimes Act?
An organization created by the FBI to counter 'paramilitary' groups in the United States. To prevent the rise of a "messiah".
What is Cointelpro?
In which pivotal legal case did a group of Mexican-American women allege violations of their constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment after undergoing coerced sterilizations at a public hospital, ultimately bringing national attention to systemic reproductive injustice in the 1970s, despite the court ruling in favor of the physicians?
This individual was part of the BPP who was viewed as a threat by law enforcement for their ability to unite various groups of oppressed people.
Who is Fred Hampton?
This aimed to make the panthers police patrols illegal by trying to remove the right to openly carry loaded weapons.
What is the Mulford Act ?
Founded during the covid 19 pandemic to share experiences and document race based hate & discriminations against Asian American communities?
What is STOP Asian American- Pacific Islander Equity Alliance (AAPI) Hate?
Marketed as a solution for population control in the early 1990s, this implant became the focus of intense ethical debate when its use was incentivized or mandated by courts and legislators—particularly among marginalized communities—drawing criticism for echoing coercive practices eugenics programs.
What is Norplant?
This 1959 Tallahassee case broke precedent when four white men were sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault of an African American college student, marking a rare departure from Jim Crow-era legal norms in the South.
What is the case of Betty Jean Owens?
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This Bill prohibited the sterilization of incarcerated individuals for the purpose of birth control without informed consent, following revelations of coercive procedures performed on women inmates?
What is SB 1135 signed in 2014 by Gov. Jerry Brown ?
Angela Davis became a symbol of black revolutionary movement, after her participation in which event, also bringing negative attention to the Black Panthers?
What is the Free Soledad Brothers Campaign/Marin County Courthouse incident?
-Underreporting
-Racial misclassification
- poor relationships between law enforcement and American
Indian communities (lack of data sharing )
This case invovled a 23 year old mother that was prosecuted by the state of Florida for delivering drugs to infants between the 45-60 seconds the umbilical cord was connected after birth.
What is Johnson v. State of Florida 1992?
An event in which 230 native people were killed and mutilated, demonstrating the historical oppressions when discussing MMIP.
What is Sand Creek Massacre 1864?
Implements a commission that identifies, reports, and tracks information on MMIP.
What is the Not Invisible Act 2020 ?
The NAACP launched an anti- lyching campaign using picture postcards of which event?
What is the case of Jesse Washington/ Waco Horror ?